Hyderabad Central University (Hcu) M.Sc. Physics Entrance - 2015

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HYDERABAD CENTRAL UNIVERSITY (HCU)

M.Sc. Physics Entrance - 2015
Time : 2 Hours M. Marks: 100
Instructions:
(i) This test booklet contains 100 Objective type questions.
(ii) Each question carries 1 mark. 0.33 mark will be deducted for each incorrect answer. Only one box should
be marked and the marking of more than one box will be treated as wrong answer.
SECTION-A
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1. The unit vector parallel to the resultant of the vectors r1  2iˆ  4 ˆj  5kˆ and r2  iˆ  2 ˆj  3kˆ is given by
1ˆ 1 ˆ 1 ˆ 3ˆ 6 ˆ 2 ˆ 2ˆ 3 ˆ 6 ˆ
(a) i  j k (b) i j k (c) i  j k (d) 3iˆ  6 ˆj  2kˆ
3 6 2 7 7 7 7 7 7
d2x 2
2. The solution to the differential equation 2  i is given by
dt
t3 t3 t4 t4 t2
(a) x   A (b) x   At  B (c) x   At  B (d) x    A
3 3 12 3 2
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where A and B are constants.
3. If T  sin x sin y sin z ,  2T is given by
(a) 0 (b) 2 sin x sin y sin z

(c) 3sin x sin y sin z (d) 3sin x sin y sin z
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 
A force F   A x i  yj is rotational. The potential energy function associated with it is given by
 x3 y 2   x y2   x3 y   x y3 
(a) U  A    (b) U  A    (c) U  A    (d) U  A   
 3 2  3 2   3 2 3 2 
5. A bead moves outward with constant speed u along the spoke of a wheel. It starts from the centre
at t = 0. The angular position of the spoke is given by   t , where  is a constant. The acceleration
of the bead is given by
(a) ut rˆ  uˆ (b) urˆ  uˆ (c) ut 2 r  utˆ

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(d) ut 2 r  2uˆ
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6. A solid cylinder and a hollow cylinder are placed at the same height at the top of a long incline and released
at the same time
(a) both the cylinders reach the bottom together
(b) solid cylinder reaches the bottom first
(c) hollow cylinder reaches the bottom first
(d) any one of them can reach the bottom first
7. A large vertical drum spins so fast that a ball inside it, is parallel to the wall. What is the minimum steady
angular velocity  which prevents the ball from falling to the bottom of the drum? (The radius of the drum
is R, the mass of the ball is M and p is the co-efficient of friction)
2 Mg 2 q 2 q 2 µq
(a)   (b)   (c)   (d)  
R µR MR R
   
8. The equation of travelling wave is given as : u  10 cos  T t  . What is the speed of the wave?
 5 cm 20 s 
(a) 1 cm/s (b) 0.5 cm/s (c) 0.25 cm/s (d) 0.1 cm/s
9. Two sound sources oscillate in phase with a frequency of 100 Hz. At a point 5 m from one source and
5.85 m from the other, the amplitude of the sound from each source separately is A. What is the phase
difference of the two waves at that point? (Assume that the speed of sound is 343 m/s)
(a) 99º (b) 45º (c) 60º (d) 89º
10. It is given that surface tension of water is 0.072 N/m and its density is 103 kg/m3. What is the height to
which water will rise in a tube of diameter 0.2 mm?
(a) 14.7 cm (b) 34.2 cm (c) 29.4 cm (d) 1.27 cm
11. An air bubble of diameter 2 mm rises steadily through a solution of density 1750 kg/m3 at the rate of 0.35
cm/sec. If the density of air is negligible, what is the coefficient of viscosity of the solution?
(a) 1 poise (b) 11 poise (c) 20 poise (d) 4 poise
12. Internal energy of the an ideal gas changes when
(a) temperature changes (b) volume changes
(c) entropy changes (d) pressure changes
13. A gas expands adiabatically and reversibl to a temperature TA. If the same expansion happens adiabatically,
but irreversibly, the final temperature is T. Then
(a) T > TA (b) T < TA
(c) T = TA (d) T can take any value indepenent of TA.
14. A cylinder fitted with a piston contains an ideal gas at 500 Kilo Pascals and occupies a volume of 0.2 m3.
The gas expands isothermally to a pressure of 100 Kilo Pascals. The work done by the gas is
(a) 160.9 kJ (b) 1609.0 kJ (c) 16.09 kJ (d) 5×104 kJ
15. The sun delivers about 1000 W/cm2 of electromagnetic flux to the earth’s surface. Assume 7% conversion
efficiency of solar panel of dimensions 8m×20m. If the radiation is incident normally, the solar power
converted for use is
(a) 11.42×104 W (b) 11.35×104 W (c) 1.56×104 W (d) 1.12×104 W
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16. The angle of refraction for a light beam incident on a heavy flint glass (n = 1.65) at the polarizing angle is
given by
(a) 31.22º (b) 30.25º (c) 28.20º (d) 33.41º
17. A radio pulse from a doppler radar reflects off an aircraft in mid-flight. If the frequency of the reflected radio
pulse is less than the original one, then which of the following statements is true?
(a) The aircraft is not moving (b) The aircraft is moving away from the radar
(c) The aircraft is moving towards the radar (d) Something is wrong with the radar.
r 2r
r2  a  
18. The total charge within a sphere of radius r in a charge cloud is given by : q 2  e  e a  . The electric
a  

field at the surface of the above sphere is given by
q q
(a) 4  a 2 e 
r / a
 er / a  (b) 4  a 2 e 
r/a
 e2 r / a 
0 0
q q
(c)  a 2 e 
r/a
 e 2 r / a  (d) 4  a 2 e 
r/a
 e2 r / a 
0 0
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19. The electric field in the x-y plane is given by E  iˆ8 x  ˆj 4 y . Then equation for the lines of force is given
by
(a) xy 2  constant (b) x 2 y  constant
(c) x 2  y  constant (d) xy  constant

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   B
20. Consider Maxwell’s equation :   E   . If  is the scalar potential and A is the vector potential, then
t

E can be written as

  
(a)     A

(b)  
A
(c) 
  
 A
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(d)  
  

 A 
t t t
21. What is the current I1, flowing in the circuit shown in the following figure?
10k 10k 15k 20k
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(a) Infinite (b) 1 mA (c) 0.5 mA (d) zero

22. A 50 hz sinusoidal signal is applied to the input of a full-wave rectifier. The frequency of the output signal
is
(a) 100 Hz (b) 50 Hz (c) 70.7 Hz (d) 0 Hz
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23. In a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), the base-width is kept thinner than Emitter and Collector width. This
is to
(a) reduce the base current (b) increase the base current
(c) increase the emitter current (d) decrease the collector current
24. If  1 and  2 are two independent solutions of the time-independent Schrodinger equation, which of the
following is also a solution of the same Schrodinger equation?
1/2
(a)  1  2 (b)  1 /  2 (c)  1   2 (d)  1 2 
25. If H1 and H2 are Hamiltonians of two non-interacting systems with wave function  1 and  2 and energies
E1 and E2 respectively, the total wave function  and energy E of the composite system are given by
(a)    1   2 , E  E1  E2 (b)    1 2 , E  E1E2
(c)    1   2 , E  E1E2 (d)    1 2 , E  E1  E2
SECTION-B
1 0 0 
 
 0   
26. What value of  will make the matrix
0   
 
1 1
(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) (d)
2 2
27. The value of the integral of the function f  x, y   x 2  y 2 integrated along a straight line from (1, 0) to
(0, 1) to (0, 1) as shown in figure is
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X
(1,0)
2 2 1 1
(a)  (b)  (c) (d) 
3 3 2 2
a b c 
 
28. If abc  P and A  c a b  , where A is an orthogonal matrix, then the value of a + b + c is
b c a 
(a) 2 (b) P (c) 2P (d) 1
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29. The general soution to the differential equation   2 y  0 , is
dx dx
(a) e x  A cos x  iB sin x  (b) eix  A cos x  iB sin x 
(c) eix  A cos x  iB sin x  (d) e x  A cos x  iB sin x 

where A and B are arbitrary constants.
30. In the complex z-plane, the equation z  2 z  1 represents
2 1
(a) a circle of radius (b) a circle of radius
3 2
3
(c) a circle of radius (d) a straight line through (0, 0) and (1, 1)
2

n
31. The power series   1 n2 x n converges for
n 1
(a) 1  x  1 (b) 1  x  1 (c) 1  x  1 (d) 1  x  1
2 d2y dy
32. On changing variable from x to t where t  log x , the differential equation x 2
  x  3x  0
dx dx
becomes
2t d2y t dy d2y dy
(a) e   e  3y  0 (b)    3y  0
dx 2 dx dx 2 dx
d2y dy d2y dy
(c) 2
    3  y  0 (d) 2
   1  3 y  0
dx dx dx dx
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A uniform drum of radius 0.5m, mass 40 kgs rolls (without slipping) down an incline of angle 5º. If the drum
starts from rest from a height of 29.4 meters, the speed of its centre of mass will be
(a) 39.2 m/s (b) 19.6 m/s (c) 32.6 m/s (d) 25.5 m/s
34. A mass M is moving along a closed rectangular path of length l along the y-direction and a along the x-
  x2 
direction (as shown in the figure) under the influence of the force F  bv0  1  2  ˆj
 a 
Y
A a
B
X
O C
The work done is given by

(a) zero (b) bv0 (c) bv0a (d) bv0 a
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A force field F   3x  y  z  iˆ  x  y  z ˆj   3 x  2 y  4 z  kˆ N is acting on a particle of mass m. The
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particle moves in a circular path of radius 5m with a constant speed of 5 m/s in the x-y plane. The centre
of the orbit is origin. The change in the kinetic energy as a particle completes one rotation is given by
(a) 25 J (b) 25  J (c) 50  J (d) 50 J
36. A particle moves along a trajectory whose displacement is given by
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r  t   cos t  iˆ  sin  t  ˆj  tkˆ , with   1
The path of the particle is
(a) parabola, with direction of motion to the right of the origin
(b) parabola, with direction of motion to the left of the origin
(c) hyperbola, with direction of motion to the right of the origin
(d) hyperbola, with direction of motion to the left of the origin
37. The centre of mass of a solid hemisphere (as shown in figure) of unit radius is given by
Unit radius
1
X
Solid hemisphere
 3  3   3   2
(a)  0, 0,  (b)  0, , 0  (c) 1, ,1 (d)  0, 0, 
 8  8   8   3
38. A particle of mass m starts at rest from the top of a smooth fixed hemisphere of radius a. The angle at which
the particle leaves the hemisphere is equal to
1  1 
 2 1 1  2 
(a) cos   (b) (c) cos   (d) sin  
3 2 3 3
39. The Lagrangian of Atwood’s machine (shown in the figure, where m2 > m1) is given by
X1 X2
m1
m2
1 1 1 1
(a) m1 x12  m2 x22  m1 gx1  m2 gx2 (b) m1 x12  m2 x1x  m1gx1  m2 g 2
2 2 2 2
1 1
(c)  m1  m2  x12   m1  m2  gx1 (d)  m1  m2  x12   m1  m2  gx1
2 2
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40. Consider a rope of mass per unit length  and length a, suspended just above a table as shown in figure.
If the rope is released from rest at the top, the force on the table when a length x of the rope has dropped
to the table is
Table top
(a)  xg (b) 2  xg (c) 3 xg (d) 4  xg
41. An object of unit mass orbits in a central potential given by U(r). Its orbit is r  a exp  b  with b > 0.
The relationship between the angular momentum and the total energy E is given by
L2 2 L2 2
(a) E  
2
 
b 1 U r (b) E 
2r 2
 
b 1 U r 
L a 2 L2
(c) E   b  1  U  r  (d) E   b  1  U  r 
r r2
42. A wave is propagating in a string of tension T and mass per unit length µ. The traveling wave can be
described as y  x, t   A sin  kx  t  . What is the kinetic energy in one wavelength    of the traveling
wave?
2TA2 2 TA2 2 TA2 2 TA2 2

(a) (b) (c) (d)
  2 4
43. Consider the figure as shown A and B have equal masses m and all the springs have the same spring
constant k. What are the normal frequencies for the system, if the oscillations are assumed to be small?
k k k
A B
X1 X2
k 2k k k k 3k k k
(a) , (b) , (c) , (d) , 1
m m 2m m m m m m
44. A violin string is held under tension T. What will be fractional change in frequency of its fundamental mode
of vibration if the tension is increased by the amount  T ?
T T T T
(a) (b) (c) (d)
T2 T T 2T
45. One can estimate the resonant frequencies of the human ear canal of length 2.2 cm, that are in the range
of human hearing. How many resonant frequencies lie in this range? Speed of sound is given as 343 m/s.
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6
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46. One end of a 100 cm long wire (without load) is fixed and a mass of 2 kg is attached to the other end.
The mass is kept moving with uniform speed in a horizontal circle of radius 60 cm. What is the strain of
the wire if the radius of the wire is 0.032 cm and Young’s modulus is 2×1011 dynes/cm2?
(a) 0.032×10–2 (b) 32×10–2 (c) 0.32×10–2 (d) 3.2×10–2
47. What will be density of lead under a pressure of 20, 000 N/cm2? (Density of lead = 11.5 gm/cm3 and bulk
modulus of lead = 0.80×1010 N/m2)
(a) 11.69 gm/cc (b) 14.19 gm/cc (c) 13.89 gm/cc (d) 15.98 gm/cc
48. The excess of pressure inside a spherical soap bubble of radius 1 cm is balanced by that due to a column
of oil of specific gravity 0.9 gm/cm3 and height 1.36 mm. What is the surface tension T?
(a) T  3.06  103 N / m (b) T  23.0 102 N / m
(c) T  3.06  102 N / m (d) T  30.6  104 N / m

49. A big drop is formed by coalescing 1000 small droplets of water. By how many times will the surface energy
decrease?
(a) 100 (b) 10 (c) 5 (d) 30
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50. A plate of area 100 cm and thickness 2 mm is placed on the upper surface of some castor oil. If the
coefficient of viscosity is 15.5 poise, what is the horizontal force necessary to move the plate with a velocity
3 cm/sec?
(a) 10.2 N (b) 0.13 N (c) 2.3 N (d) 0.23 N
51. The velocity of water in a river is 10 km/hr near the surface. If the river is 5m deep, what is the shearing
stress between the horizontal layers of water? (The coefficient of viscosity of water = 10–2 poise)
1 2
(a) 103 N /m 2 (b) 105 N /m 2 (c) 10 N /m2 (d) 10 N /m
52. The figures shown represent two engines in T-S phase plane. Let  a and b denote the efficients of the
engines (I) and (II), respectively. Then
T T
T
T2 2
T1 T1
S1 S2 S S1 S2
(I) (II)
(a) b   a (b)  a  b (c)  a  b (d)  a  b

53. The relation between pressure and volume of an ideal gas in a reversible process is given by P  aV  b,
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where a   Pascal/meter3, b  Pascals. The volume at which the temperature attains maximum
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is
(a) 32.9 m3 (b) 329.7 m3 (c) 0.329 m3 (d) 20.7 m3
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54. Clausius-Clapeyron equation for liquid-gas transition is given by dT T v  v . If vg  vL and
 
g L
 vg  RT , the expression for saturated vapour pressure is given by
(a)   constant×e1/ RT (b)   constant×e 1/ RT (c)   0 (d)   constant

55. For a non-magnetic insulator, the specific heat is proportional to
(a) T (b) T2 (c) T3 (d) e /k BT
56. Consider the superposition of two sinusoidal waves given by y1  4sin  3 x  2t  cm and
y2  4sin  3 x  2t  cm . The maximum displacement of the resultant motion at x = 2.3 cm is

(a) 8.65 cm (b) 1.61 cm (c) 4.63 cm (d) 7.60 cm
57. A total of 25 fringes move across the field of view when one of the mirrors of the Michelson interferrometer
is moved by a distance d. If the interferrometer is illuminated by a laser of wavelength 632.8 nm, the
distance by which the mirror is moved is
(a) 79.1 µm (b) 38.6 µm (c) 57.3 µm (d) 158.2 µm
58. A parallel light beam of diameter ‘d’ is incident on a convex lens of focal length f. The emergin beam from
this lens passes again through another lens of focal length 2f, kept at a distance 3f from first lens. The
diameter of the output beam is
1
(a) d (b) 2d (c) not related with d (d) d
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59. Consider a uniformly charged disc of radius ‘a’ and surface charge density  . Consider a point P on the
axis of the disc at a distance z from the disc. The potential at P is given by
 1   2 2 
(a)  2 (b) 2   a  z  z 
0 z 0
  2 2 2
2    2 2
(c)   a  z  a  z  (d)   a  z  a 
0 0
60. A charge q is distributed uniformly over the surface of a thin circular insulating disc of radius a. The potential
at the rim of the disc is given by
q q q q
(a)  2 a  (b) 4 2 a  (c)  a 2  (d) 4 2 a 2 
0 0 0 0
10
61. Current I is passing through a conical shaped copper wire of ressistivity  as shown in the figure. If L is
the length of the wire, b is front radius and a is the back radius of the wire, what is the resistance of the
wire?
I
a
b
L L
L L 
(a) (b)   a  b  (c)   a  b  (d)  ab 
 
 ab  2   ab 
62. A very long wire carrying charge ‘q’ per unit length is held parallel to an infinite conducting plane at a
distance h from it. What is the force of attraction per unit length?
q2 q2 q2 q2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 0 h 4 0 h 2 0 h 2 0 h
q e r / 
63. The potential in a medium is given by   r   . The charge density for r  0 is given by
4 0 r
q r / q
(a)   e (b)  2
e r / 
0 4 r
q r/ q 2 r / 
(c)  4  r 2 e (d)  4  e
0 0
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64.  
What is the magnetic field B produced at point P (centre of the arcs) due to the current I in the close
loop as shown in figure?
 µ I 1 1ˆ  µ I 1 1ˆ
(a) B   0   k (b) B   0   k
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 R1 R2  4  R1 R2 
 µ0 I 1 1ˆ  µ0 I 1 1ˆ
(c)   4
B   k (d)   4
B   k
 R2 R1   R2 R1 
65. In the circuit given below, the diode can be considered as ideal. The peak secondary voltage and the D.C.
load voltage respectively are then given by
10:1
(a) 31.1V and 9.9V (b) 22V and 9.9V (c) 22V and 7.0V (d) 31.1 V and 7.0 V
11
66. What is the effective resistance between points A and B?
20
10 20
A
10
10
B
(a) Rab  10 (b) Rab  11 (c) Rab  15 (d) Rab  12
67. What are the values of R4 and L4, if the a.c. bridge shown in figure is balanced?
R1
R2
L1
R4
R3
L4
(a) R4  720  and L4  12 mH (b) R4  3000  and L4  24 mH
(c) R4  120  and L4  600 mH (d) R4  3000  and L4  600 mH
68. What is the operating point VCF , IC  for the transistor circuit shown in figure? (Assume IC = IE and
VBE = 0.77)
R C
VCC
15V
VBB
5V RE
(a) 5V, 2 mA (b) 7.5 V, 1.5 mA (c) 7.5 V, 1 mA (d) 10V, 1 mA

69. A particle of mass 1.40×105 kg has a relativistic momentum of magnitude 3.15×1013 kg m/s. How fast
is the particle traveling?
(a) 2.68  108 m /s (b) 1.8  108 m /s (c) 3.3  1016 m /s (d) 3  108 m /s
8
70. A proton of rest mass 1.68 10 27 kg is traveling at 2.5  10 m /s . What is kinetic energy of the
proton?
27
(a) 1.18  1010 J (b) 0.18  10 10 J (c) 2.18  10 J (d) 1.32 10 27 J
12
71. A spaceship passes you at a speed of 0.85 c. You meausre its length to be 48.2 m. What is its length at
rest?
(a) 80 m (b) 100 m (c) 91.5 m (d) 81 m
d
72. Which of the following functions is teh eigen-function of the operator, i ?
dx
(a) exp  ikx  (b) cos  kx  (c) sin  kx  (d)  cos  kx   sin  kx  
2
73. In a one dimensional problem, the normalized wave function for the ground state is given by   N e ax ,
where N is the normalization constant. What is the value of N?
a a 2a a
(a) (b) (c) (d)
 2  
74. Commutator of two Hermitian operators has to be
(a) Hermitian (b) anti-Hermitian (c) unitary (d) orthogonal
75. A sample of radioactive isotopes contains two different nuclides, labeled A and B. Initially, the sample
composition is 1 : 1. The half-life of A is 3 hours and that of B is 6 hours. What is the expected ratio A/B after
18 hours?
(a) 1/6 (b) 1/4 (c) 1/8 (d) 1/2

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HYDERABAD CENTRAL UNIVERSITY (HCU)

Time : 2 Hours M. Marks: 100

(a) 0 (b) 2 sin x sin y sin z

(a) ut rˆ  uˆ (b) urˆ  uˆ (c) ut 2 r  utˆ

(a) xy 2  constant (b) x 2 y  constant

(c) x 2  y  constant (d) xy  constant

(a) Infinite (b) 1 mA (c) 0.5 mA (d) zero

(c)    1   2 , E  E1E2 (d)    1 2 , E  E1  E2

(a) 2 (b) P (c) 2P (d) 1

(a) e x  A cos x  iB sin x  (b) eix  A cos x  iB sin x 

(c) eix  A cos x  iB sin x  (d) e x  A cos x  iB sin x 

(a) 1  x  1 (b) 1  x  1 (c) 1  x  1 (d) 1  x  1

The work done is given by

(a)  xg (b) 2  xg (c) 3 xg (d) 4  xg

2TA2 2 TA2 2 TA2 2 TA2 2

(c) T  3.06  102 N / m (d) T  30.6  104 N / m

(a) b   a (b)  a  b (c)  a  b (d)  a  b

 vg  RT , the expression for saturated vapour pressure is given by

(a)   constant×e1/ RT (b)   constant×e 1/ RT (c)   0 (d)   constant

y2  4sin  3 x  2t  cm . The maximum displacement of the resultant motion at x = 2.3 cm is

(a) R4  720  and L4  12 mH (b) R4  3000  and L4  24 mH

(c) R4  120  and L4  600 mH (d) R4  3000  and L4  600 mH

(a) 5V, 2 mA (b) 7.5 V, 1.5 mA (c) 7.5 V, 1 mA (d) 10V, 1 mA

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